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earnings
OXFORD DICTIONARY
earnings, n.pl. money earned.
Idiom
earnings-related (of benefit, a pension, etc.) calculated on the basis of past or present income.
THESAURUS
earnings
accession, acquirement, acquisition, addition, attainment, avails, base pay, box office, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, coming by, commissions, compensation, credit, credits, dismissal wage, disposable income, dividend, dividends, dragging down, earned income, emolument, escalator clause, escalator plan, filthy lucre, financial remuneration, gain, gaining, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, getting, getting hold of, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, guaranteed annual wage, hire, hoard, income, intake, interest, killing, living wage, lucre, make, making, makings, minimum wage, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, moneymaking, neat profit, net, net income, net profit, net receipts, obtainment, obtention, output, paper profits, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, portal-to-portal pay, proceeds, procural, procurance, procuration, procurement, produce, profit, profits, purchasing power, rake-off, real wages, receipt, receipts, receivables, remuneration, return, returns, revenue, royalties, salary, securement, severance pay, sliding scale, stipend, store, take, take-home, take-home pay, take-in, takings, taxable income, total compensation, trover, unearned income, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, wealth, winning, winnings, yieldROGET THESAURUS
earnings
Acquisition
N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.Receipt
N receipt, value received, money coming in, income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds, gross receipts, net profit, earnings, accepta, avails, rent, rent roll, rental, rentage, rack-rent, premium, bonus, sweepstakes, tontine, pension, annuity, jointure, alimony, palimony, pittance, emolument, receiving, received, profitable.For further exploring for "earnings" in Webster Dictionary Online